JetBrains RustRover Is Released and Includes a Free Non-Commercial Option

PyCharm and IntelliJ Community don’t have commercial restrictions. I’m still pretty anti-RustRover given this and the whole bait-and-switch where they turned the open source Rust plugin into what is now a closed source, paid editor. JetBrains still had done nothing to ameliorate this.

I thought I saw this weeks ago.

May 21, 2024

yep

Anyway, neovim+rust-analyzer+ra-multiplex is all I need.

From what I gather, this isn't opensource, which is a pity. JetBrains makes the best IDEs out there for me. Anytime I touch something else, I feel hampered. Everything else just seems to take too much setup no matter how much time I put into it (looking at you neovim).

Developing Rust in CLion has been a charm so far, but let's wait until v2 of RustRover before switching over...

Anti Commercial-AI license

Beware they started charging for the database tools even if you own an all-products license (the plugin was included in the EAP version).

IntelliJ still has it bundled iirc.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10925-database-tools-and-sql-for-webstorm--rustrover

I’m still bummed out that I can’t use the rust plugin in CLion anymore for free, not even for non commercial purposes.

Nobody else here has mentioned this but they stripped out all the web plugin support and tooling with no way to install it, even for paying customers. So if you're working on some kind of web application (perhaps compiling Rust to webassembly, like me) RustRover won't support your use case.

I use it and it's okay but man, how long could it take them to separate search results in tests from not in tests.

Last time I think I found a similar issue for vscode or rust-analyzer, and the devs said it requires a lot of rework and will not be done for a while. Now I can't find that but maybe it is a task that is harder than it looks. It would've been a total killer feature for me, though

How is it better than rust-analyzer?

I used to use IntelliJ Rust as my primary rust IDE, but when they switched to Rust Rover I stopped using it. Not sure why actually, possibly since I used Java with IntelliJ it was already my go to IDE, so using it for Rust was natural. I also guess, that I had nvim with rust-analyzer working, so that was available at my finger tips already. So, I might have switched over anyway... who knows.

Anyway, it is good to see more options available, and I hope it is getting so good that it is worth the money.

I don't mind paying for RustRover for commercial use as an individual but only bundling it with the all products pack sucks. I'm not paying $300 for RustRover.

I have PyCharm 2023.2 with the deprecated Rust plugin and it works great. I don't think that's restricted to Non-commercial use. Also VSCodium exists with the Rust Analyzer plugin so that's another alternative

I bought CLion's license for many years for personal use. I could easily work on c++ and python on the same project, and could still use it for Rust (same project or not). I decided to stop with the license when they deprecated Rust's plugin in favor of RustRover. I don't like jumping around between "different" IDEs.